Recommended Reading

Toni Morrison Beloved; Bluest Eye; Sula
Alice Walker The Color Purple
Dorothy Allison Bastard out of Carolina; Cavedweller
Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street
Julia Alvarez Yo; How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent
Isabel Allende Eva Luna; The House of Spirits
Jamaica Kincaid Lucy; Autobiography of my Mother; Annie John
Michelle Cliff No Telephone to Heaven
Edwidge Danticat The Farming of Bones; Breath, Eyes, Memory; Krik? Krak!
Paule Marshall Praisesong for the Widow
Louise Erdrich Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
Marjane Satrapi Persepolis (1 and 2)
Maxine Hong Kingston Woman Warrior
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera
Mario Vargas Llosa Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
Jorge Amado Dona Flor and her Two Husbands
Antonio Skarmeta The Postman
Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things
Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner; A Thousand Splendid Suns
Laura Esquivel Like Water for Chocolate
Benson Deng, Alephonsion They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky
Deng,Benjamin Ajak

Ntozake Shange For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf

Note: These are books that I have read and would recommend to others. This list is by no means complete, and reflects my own reading preferences.

Student Voices Event 4/21

Come to the Student Voices panel on Tuesday, April 21st from 6-7:30 in Memorial Hall, Room 3235 to discuss multicultural perspectives in the classroom!

This event is sponsored by the COE Diversity Committee, and will be a round table discussion of the importance of multicultural perspectives in education, as well as ways to implement these perspectives.

Please come out and support this great event!